What can ordinary people do to make a huge difference in the world? What if I were to say that this is something that has the potential to help stop climate change while giving a precious gift to future generations? What would you think of that? And what if I said that you didn’t have […]
Five reasons to plant trees Read More »
Today’s blogging prompt is to talk about a place that I would like to visit. A place to dream about. A place that belongs on a bucket list. Some place that is beautiful and far away. It’s been two and a half years since I traveled anywhere, and I am feeling the pull of
If I could go anywhere… Read More »
Today’s blogging prompt is a question: do you work on the weekends or do you take them off? My answer is this vague… it depends. Freelance journalism is an erratic type of work. Sometimes, I’m busily taking pictures and writing articles about weekend events. Other times, there is nothing at all. This weekend, it’s
Weekends are rhubarb and tap shoes and… Read More »
Note: Alice decided to take a day off from posting so she invited a guest poster to take her place. Please welcome Lucy, who is writing her very first blog post. Hi, my name is Lucy, and I am Alice’s foster kitty. I’ve been living with her for almost six weeks, and I have been
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When you have nowhere to put a garden, you make adjustments. In the case of the Sun Restaurant, 1989 Niagara Street, Buffalo, the issue of lack of garden space was addressed by the use of raised garden boxes. In the next few weeks, you can look for a review of the Sun Restaurant and its
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Today’s blogging prompt involves the number four in any form… four seasons, four cardinal directions, four suits in a deck of cards, four basic mathematical functions, four elements (earth, wind, air, and fire), and so forth. I thought about things that come in four and decided to talk about the four basic mathematical functions, as
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I did get a writing prompt in this morning’s email from Paul Taubman at the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. But for reasons that I can’t share yet, I’m going to put off that topic for about a week or so. You’re probably wondering… reasons that I can’t share yet? Exactly! I am going to make a
If I could only have a superpower… or two… Read More »
Yesterday evening, I got to have so much fun when I went to Orange Poppy Art Studio on Grand Island for a creative activity involving two things that I love: art and plants. It is always a delight to go into this studio, a small business run with great joy by its two owners, Bonnie
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I’m a day late for the end of the April A to Z blogging challenge, as there is no such thing as April 31st. But, hey, I finished in typical zig zag style, so it’s all good. I tried to be zealous in my approach to the challenge, to talk about how I have
Zigzagging from one challenge to the next Read More »
During the lockdown, when I couldn’t go anywhere, I still had books to take me to places both near and far and to different times, both in the past and the future. Some of the books, however, kept me grounded in our present times. They kept me focused on issues that face us as
